PREFACE. 



THIS volume claims to be no more than an 

 amateur's contribution to the literature of 

 the very large and varied subject of Fruits and 

 Fruiting-plants. To exhaust the subject would 

 require folios : the difficulty in dealing with even 

 a portion of it is not to find material, but to select 

 such as may be likely to prove most generally 

 useful and interesting. In the following chapters 

 those fruits only have been dealt with which are 

 either produced in Great Britain, or which are 



